Debian Bug report logs - #665500
spins displaying "connecting" progress bar after successful connection

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Package: wicd-gtk; Maintainer for wicd-gtk is Debian WICD Packaging Team <[email protected]>; Source for wicd-gtk is src:wicd (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Joey Hess <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version wicd/1.7.1-1

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Information forwarded to [email protected], David Paleino <[email protected]>:
Bug#665500; Package wicd-gtk. (Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:33:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Joey Hess <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to David Paleino <[email protected]>. (Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:33:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: spins displaying "connecting" progress bar after successful connection
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:31:06 -0400
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Package: wicd-gtk
Version: 1.7.1-1
Severity: normal

See attached screenshot. The UI contradicts itself, stating both
"connecting" and "connected". This remains up as long as wicd-client is
running, and worse this causes a constant stream of activity, which
keeps wicd itself eating about 10% of CPU. This CPU usage vanishes
when wicd-client is stopped.

It may be relevant that the network I've connected to is an ad-hoc wifi
network.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"hollow"  
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Cell: AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA   
          Tx-Power=13 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

It has a dhcp server on it, which wicd uses. I tried turning off the option to
ping gateways after connection, but that did not help.

As far as I can see, there are no hooks or scripts still being run by wicd.
The relevant processes:

 8352 ?        S      0:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -s -O /var/run/wpa_supplicant
 9214 ?        S      1:21 /usr/bin/python -O /usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py
 9228 ?        S      0:29  \_ /usr/bin/python -O /usr/share/wicd/daemon/monitor.py
31738 ?        Ss     0:00 /sbin/dhclient -v wlan0

I also tried wicd-curses. It reports:

Connected to hollow at ??% (IP: 10.1.1.2)

Note: Same network upon which #644286 used to happen. I suppose this new
behavior is a slight improvement over the old..

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wicd-gtk depends on:
ii  python         2.7.2-10
ii  python-glade2  2.24.0-3
ii  python-gtk2    2.24.0-3
ii  wicd-daemon    1.7.1-1

Versions of packages wicd-gtk recommends:
ii  gksu           2.0.2-6
ii  python-notify  0.1.1-3

wicd-gtk suggests no packages.

Versions of packages wicd depends on:
ii  wicd-daemon  1.7.1-1

Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser                         3.113+nmu1
ii  dbus                            1.4.18-1
ii  debconf                         1.5.42
ii  dhcp3-client                    4.2.2-2
ii  iproute                         20120105-1
ii  iputils-ping                    3:20101006-1+b1
ii  isc-dhcp-client [dhcp3-client]  4.2.2.dfsg.1-4
ii  lsb-base                        3.2+Debian31
ii  net-tools                       1.60-24.1
ii  psmisc                          22.16-1
ii  python                          2.7.2-10
ii  python-dbus                     0.84.0-3
ii  python-gobject                  3.1.0-2
ii  python-wicd                     1.7.1-1
ii  wireless-tools                  30~pre9-8
ii  wpasupplicant                   0.7.3-6

wicd-daemon recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests:
ii  pm-utils  1.4.1-9

Versions of packages python-wicd depends on:
ii  python     2.7.2-10
ii  python2.6  2.6.7-4
ii  python2.7  2.7.3~rc1-1

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Reply sent to Debian FTP Masters <[email protected]>:
You have taken responsibility. (Sat, 22 Aug 2020 15:25:51 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Joey Hess <[email protected]>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Sat, 22 Aug 2020 15:25:51 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Bug#968033: Removed package(s) from unstable
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 15:20:20 +0000
Version: 1.7.4+tb2-6+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package wicd has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/968033

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
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Bug reopened Request was from Axel Beckert <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:51:57 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


No longer marked as fixed in versions 1.7.4+tb2-6+rm. Request was from Axel Beckert <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:51:57 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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